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Topic: Which protocols are supported by Acrobat?
Conf: (P-PDF) Mac Issues, Msg: 95909
From: d-b
Date: 9/5/2003 07:57 PM
On 9/5/2003 7:37:41 PM, aandi wrote:
>You can't make up new
>protocols. The reason is that
>each protocol not only has its
>own set of names, but also
>defines a way of talking to
>another computer. http, https,
>ftp - all of these need the
>computer and server to talk to
>each other in a different way.
>If you invented a new protocol
>like "pdf", nobody would know
>what to do with it - not the
>client, not the server, and
>not the proxy in between.
>
>You may be onto something with
>http and changing the MIME
>type, though.
That is not entirely true. For exampel both WebDAV and webcal
uses http, but (can) have their own prefixes to indicate that the
browser must send them to another application. Acrobat:// could
work in a similar way - the browser sends the link to Acrobat and
Acrobat uses http to download the link.
